Remote Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Self‑Service APIs

Zillow; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Public Cloud Foundations team. You will build backend services and APIs that abstract cloud complexity, turning manual work into safe, self-service software products.

You will own design, implementation, and operation of scalable platform components, with a focus on reducing toil, improving observability, and delivering a reliable product for Zillow engineers. Equity awards are available based on experience and location.

Qualifications

• Senior software engineer with production experience
• Design distributed API-based platform
• Strong testing, code review and debugging habits
• Experience with at least one public cloud (AWS preferred) and core primitives

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend services and APIs for self-service cloud capabilities (accounts, networking, IAM, policy).
• Encode repetitive cloud work into safe, automated APIs and tooling.
• Understand customer use cases, shape interfaces and roadmaps with feedback from usage data.
• Ensure reliability with observability, SLOs, and self-healing capabilities; on-call for production systems.

Skills

6+ years experience

System design

Golang or Python

Public cloud (AWS)

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Toil reduction mindset

Tools

Terraform

GitLab Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Argo

Job description

Zillow Group is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Public Cloud Foundations team. You will build backend services and APIs that abstract cloud complexity, turning manual work into safe, self-service software products.

You will own design, implementation, and operation of scalable platform components, with a focus on reducing toil, improving observability, and delivering a reliable product for Zillow engineers. Equity awards are available based on experience and location.